(22589) Minor Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 April 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Tom Minor mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Dayton Christian High School, Dayton, Ohio.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Minor is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Minor is 2.46 au from the Sun and 1.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22589 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 HY100 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.35 km (#16,523 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.321 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.43 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.98 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 3.20° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.963 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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